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Behind the Scenes

Located in the northwest corner of the textile art gallery, PreVIEW is a space that offers visitors a behind-the-scenes look at the handling, care, and study of textiles in the Denver Art Museum’s collection.

When we were developing Modern Masters: 20th Century Icons from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, I became intrigued, delighted, and sometimes a little freaked out by some of the “games” that surrealist artists like Salvador Dalí would play

Modern Masters: 20th Century Icons from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery at the DAM is presented in conjunction with a special exhibition at the Clyfford Still Museum titled 1959: The Albright-Knox Art Gallery Exhibition Recreat

The Chambers and Grant Gallery on level three of the Hamilton Building provides great opportunity for a focused presentation. Its intimate size mandates a careful selection of works so that each relates to the others in meaningful ways.

We Denverites are lucky people. We are graced with beautiful scenery, weather much of the country envies, and one of the greatest cultural arts scenes in the United States, with the Denver Art Museum serving as one its anchors.

I’m pictured here in the conservation lab of the Royal Library and Print Room at Windsor Castle where I spent time with the paper conservator to look at some drawings that had been mounted on stiff fiberboard during the nineteenth century.